Reddit Science's Ban on Climate Change Denial Posts Rears Its Head Again
A recent opinion piece by one of the site's moderators has dredged up heated discussion on the decision to ban posts denying climate change.
Reddit's science subsection boasts over four million subscribers—scientists and non-scientists alike—and is moderated by a group of 24 users.
One of those moderators, Nathan Allen, submitted an opinion piece to Grist on December 16, writing about how Reddit Science bans posts denying climate change, and calling for newspapers to follow suit.
The policy has actually been in effect at Reddit Science for about a year. Moderators noticed that many posts denying climate change were not related to peer-reviewed research, which is a requirement of all submissions to the Reddit Science site, Allen told the climate section of the blog ThinkProgress.
Once moderators began to crack down on this, Allen writes in Grist that they saw an immediate change in the
